To help the visually impaired to be able to enjoy the views outside the vehicle, Ford has cooked up something it describes as a prototype smart auto window.

Called Feel The View, the technology uses a camera and vibration motor mounted on to the window, which captures pictures and then turns them into greyscale images before reproducing them on to the glass. Each of the varying shades of grey in the image is then represented by a vibration, with 255 intensities in total. The idea is to allow the passenger to touch the screen and imagine in their mind the landscape or other items in front of them.

An artificial intelligence-powered vocal assistant connected to the vehicle's speakers also gives a brief description of landscape features as passengers run their fingers over them.

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Ford has not indicated whether or not the tactile "viewing" device will make it into series production, however it does appear to be at a reasonably polished stage of development.

Feel The View was conceived and developed by Ford's team in Italy and GTB Roma, in collaboration with Aedo - a local start-up that specializes in devices for the visually impaired.

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